Will Act For Food Presents Len Jenkin?s AMERICAN NOTES 5/8-6/7

It is night, we are in America, and the time is now.

Will Act For Food is following up the success of their production of Frankenstein in Love with Len Jenkin's American Notes: a slightly twisted glimpse into the lives of average, everyday people... who turn out to not be so average after all. WAFF Artistic Director and co-founder Corri Feuerstein directs the play and its multifarious miscellany.

Part intertwined character sketchbook, part postcard collection, and held together by desperation and coffee-fueled late-night conversation; American Notes is a surreal journey into the American Myth and the mysteries of Who We Are, What We Do, and Is That Crocodile Dead? Jenkin's darkly comic tale keeps us wondering what's lurking just beyond our view. This is interesting country. Look around.

American Notes
By Len Jenkin
Directed by Corri Feuerstein
A Will Act For Food production
At the Prop Thtr, 3504 N. Elston
May 8-June 7, 2009
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM
Sundays at 7PM
$20; $18 with nonperishable food donation
$10 Students/Seniors
For tickets: 1-866-811-4111 or www.willactforfood.com

Cast: F.Tyler Burnet, Devon Carson, LaQuin Groves, Andrew Jordan, Scott Pasko, Tony Piscotti, Jenna Rabideaux, Justin Speer, Melissa Tropp, and CW van Baale

Design Team:
Alexis Vejar- set designer
Pamela Maurer- assistant set designer
Dan Tamarkin- lighting designer
Nicholas Booth- sound designer
Rachel Sypniewski- costumer
Missy Styles- properties master
Eric Fredrickson- properties assistant

Cans for Cash night: Saturday, May 16!

Will Act For Food designates one performance of every production as our special food-raising event, "Cans For Cash." For each nonperishable food item a patron donates, he/she is given $1 off the $30 full-price ticket for the event, with no limit to this discount: one's entire admission can be paid in food, or with any combination of cans and cash! To thank patrons for their generosity, there is a reception immediately after the show where the audience can mingle with the cast and crew while enjoying refreshments and music.

All food donations benefit Lakeview Pantry, one of the longest-lived food pantries in Chicago. Due to the limited space and popularity of this event, we do ask that you reserve your seats in advance. Questions? Want to RSVP? Drop an email to cansforcash@willactforfood.com.

About the company (www.willactforfood.com)
Founded in 1997, Will Act For Food nourishes the Chicago community artistically and literally. We take a collaborative approach to theater, finding the light in darkness, revealing truth within fiction, and celebrating the absurd in the everyday. By offering discounted admission in exchange for non-perishable food donations, we empower our audiences to help feed those in need.

About the playwright (www.lenjenkin.com/biography.htm)
Len Jenkin is a novelist, playwright, director, and screenwriter. He has received many honors and awards, including three OBIE awards for Directing and Playwriting, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a nomination for an EMMY Award, and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Mr. Jenkin holds a PhD in American Literature from Columbia University. He is a Professor in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and lives in New York City.

For more information, please contact Melissa Tropp at Curious Relations: 312-316-1736, troppy@curiousrelations.com

 

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